The Comice pear, the oldest Gravenstein apple, an early blooming peach grown from seed, and the Harcot Apricot. I saw quite a few apricots blooming when I was out and about today. The Japanese type plum here is a couple of warm days away from starting to bloom and it doesn't look like it's died much more. It's more than 50 years old.
Apricot tree vs wall and pavement-
#Nature #Apricots #Plants #Trees #Civilization
This is where I live. It's still apricot season for another week or so. We saw this tree on a bike ride Saturday. It's growing between the hike and bike trail and a broad, dry arroyo, but I can imagine it in someone's yard, long ago, before developers decided it was a good spot and bought the land.
Note the apricots still in the tree, especially in the top right.
#Apricots #FruitTrees #FreeFood #Nature #Bounty
It's that time of year again.
#Apricots #FruitTrees #Gardening #Nature
Another incredible delivery of #organic #apricots! I wish you could smell them. #organicfood #organicfarming #crowdfarming
Another superb #crowdfarming delivery: #apricots They're absolutely delicious!!!
Good morning people of the Mastodons!
Now look at that, some apricots survived the frost nights we had some weeks ago!
I hope that we'll have some nice to harvest later this year.
Random Tuesday morning status update:
- today was tax return day
- lots of meetings today
- we're going for a short Holiday to #Budapest and northern #Hungary tomorrow
- kid was at the grandparents for some days > sleep for us
- I still woke up at 5am every day
- going to see #JudasPriest on #Easter Monday
- about to spend 5k on outdoor/garden stuff (tax return right in time)
- frosty nights have killed all the #apricots
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There is a superstition among US soldiers that it is unlucky to eat apricots in a tank, or even to say the word "apricot", as they believed the vehicles would break down around cans of apricots.
10 things you might not know about apricots:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/01/january-9th-apricot-day.html
First time flowering for this Tien Shen Mountain apricot. This is a landrace apricot from Kazakhstan, the ancestral home of apricots. Unfortunately low 20s in a couple days will wipeout any fruit that sets.